Merry Christmas, 2024 - Luke Haeger

Luke Haeger

Merry Christmas, 2024

Ink and pencil on paper

11 x 8.5 inches

Merry Christmas is anything but festive. With scrawled text and fractured linework, Luke Haeger delivers a bleak holiday card for a disillusioned age. The phrase—iconic, sentimental—feels ironic here, stripped of warmth and reframed as a desperate mantra or broken wish.

Sketched in ink and pencil with a raw, erratic energy, the piece sits at the edge of sincerity and sarcasm. Haeger allows the page to breathe just enough, but never long enough to settle. This is not a celebration—it’s a confrontation with the rituals we cling to, even when their meaning collapses.